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Immigration raid leaves damaging mark on Postville, Iowa

May. 12, 2009
A year after the crackdown of a kosher meatpacking plant, the town is struggling with the bankrupt business, unemployment and high anxiety. In a town now synonymous with the words "immigrant" and "crackdown," a hodgepodge crowd gathers twice a week for handouts just steps from...
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A federal grand jury has indicted an Iowa meatpacking company where a raid found hundreds of illegal aliens were working and its former chief executive officer.

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SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., May 30 (UPI) -- A Swampscott, Mass., bakery owner says the state's primary Jewish organization has threatened to take away his kosher designation unless he closes on Saturdays.

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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch